Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has emerged at the centre of a potentially embarrassing mystery when she abruptly aborted a visit to Bethlehem just yards from an Israeli checkpoint guarding the entrance to the city of Christ's birth. Adrian Blomfield from the telegraph.co.uk writes:
...After an uneventful drive from her hotel in nearby Jerusalem, her car stopped just short of the mainIsraelimilitary checkpoint outside Bethlehem, a Palestinian city in the West Bank, appeared to hesitate and then performed a u-turn.